KATHMANDU; There will be no need for litigants to compulsorily attend the Supreme Court and Appellate Court to proceed their appeals pending in the higher courts as the apex court is doing final work to scrap compulsory court presence system.

"Now the litigants can enjoy e-attendance in the Supreme Court and Appellate Courts regarding the progress of their appeals pending the higher courts," Hemanta Rawal, assistant spokesperson at SC told The Himalayan Times today.

In order to introduce the e-attendance system in court cases, the full court meeting of the Supreme Court Justices have begun discussion from today.

The e-attendance system would be introduced through the amendment of Supreme Court Regulation, 1991 and Appellate Court Regulation 1991. Even the litigants can follow their cases progress through hotline to be given by the apex court and the appellate courts.

"The discussion of the justices did not complete today and it would be continued on Sunday also," Rawal added. However, the litigants whose cases are pending in the district courts could not get such facilities of e-attendance and they have to attend the court compulsorily.

According to a participant in the meeting, Supreme Court Justices are in favour of scrapping the compulsory court presence system due to which the litigants have faced serious problem in visiting the courts regularly and to introduce new system.

The apex court also mulling over introducing a system under which litigants of every case would get chance of out of court settlement and compromise.

"If they are not ready to settle their cases out of court, their cases would not be forwarded to the mediation centres," he added.

In order to make the judiciary effective on providing prompt justice, the apex court also doing homework to introduce Judicial Sector Coordination Committee.

In order to settle serious human rights cases like rape, murder, abduction and trafficking cases, the apex court is going to introduce continuous hearing and prompt decision in the district courts.

"We have been thinking that such continuous hearing might help in providing prompt justice and from preventing the witnesses of being hostile in the long time," he added.